In Forum: Microsoft Operating Systems
By User: Yuyu
It is known that a company named "Insignia Solutions" did x86-emulators for Macintosh-computers (both, 68k and PPC) around the mid of the Nineties. In order to maximize the speed of the Windows-emulation they purchased the Windows-sourcecode from Microsoft. As far as I could find out, they did at least have the sourcecodes of Windows 3.1 and Windows 95. They used it to port Windows legally and officially to PPC-Macs. Also to Unix-workstations and possibly some other platforms. The 68k-versions of SoftWindows (at least the publically released ones) were AFAIK not affected by this, they were rather generic x86-emulators, not ports.
So I wonder, if those PPC-native builds of Windows 3.1 / Windows 95 should actually be considered as "normal" Windows-builds. If yes, they should probably be added to the list of Windows-builds in the BA-Wiki.
If you have never heard of all this, I have quickly collected some links for further reading. Use the text-search of your browser with the term "source" (for "sourcecode" or "source code") to directly jump to the "relevant" parts of those websites.
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Insignia+ ... a018772657
http://support.apple.com/kb/TA31334
http://www.informationweek.com/529/29oljl.htm
http://www.taborcommunications.com/archives/2646.html
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys ... 0b84ba5947
http://groups.google.com/group/swnet.sy ... a74e1ae414
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.emu ... e9f62da6f5
By User: Yuyu
It is known that a company named "Insignia Solutions" did x86-emulators for Macintosh-computers (both, 68k and PPC) around the mid of the Nineties. In order to maximize the speed of the Windows-emulation they purchased the Windows-sourcecode from Microsoft. As far as I could find out, they did at least have the sourcecodes of Windows 3.1 and Windows 95. They used it to port Windows legally and officially to PPC-Macs. Also to Unix-workstations and possibly some other platforms. The 68k-versions of SoftWindows (at least the publically released ones) were AFAIK not affected by this, they were rather generic x86-emulators, not ports.
So I wonder, if those PPC-native builds of Windows 3.1 / Windows 95 should actually be considered as "normal" Windows-builds. If yes, they should probably be added to the list of Windows-builds in the BA-Wiki.
If you have never heard of all this, I have quickly collected some links for further reading. Use the text-search of your browser with the term "source" (for "sourcecode" or "source code") to directly jump to the "relevant" parts of those websites.
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Insignia+ ... a018772657
http://support.apple.com/kb/TA31334
http://www.informationweek.com/529/29oljl.htm
http://www.taborcommunications.com/archives/2646.html
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys ... 0b84ba5947
http://groups.google.com/group/swnet.sy ... a74e1ae414
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.emu ... e9f62da6f5